A collection of essays

One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include the relatively unf…

Extended Essay (student handbook)

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Extended essay ( supervisor and coordinator handbook)

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2025

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Miss brill

Vanity and creeping loneliness permeate these three short stories by the modern master of the form

Il duro

Sketches of scorched landscapes, peasants and wild spirits from Lawrence's travels in early twentieth-century Italy

Circe and the cyclops

Ancient Greek myths from The Odyssey telling of battles with deadly beasts and a beautiful enchantress

As kingfishers catch fire

Considered unpublishable in his lifetime, the Victorian priest groundbreaking, experimental verse on nature's glory and despair

On murder considered as one of the fine arts

The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blacky comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.

Aphorisms of love and hate

The iconoclastic German philosopher's blazing maxims on revenge, false pity and the drawbacks of marriage.